Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Gnomish

heb

preposition. round about, around

Gnomish [GL/48; LT2A/Heborodin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hebringli

place name. Hebringli

heb-

verb. to bind, bind round

Gnomish [GL/23; GL/48] Group: Eldamo. Published by

heborodin

place name. Encircling Hills

In the earliest Lost Tales, the mountains around Gondolin, in later writings named Echoriath.

Gnomish [LT2/166; LT2A/Heborodin; LT2I/Heborodin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hebrim

noun. bound(ary)

Gnomish [GL/48; LT2A/Heborodin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hebwirol

adjective. circumspect

Gnomish [GL/48; LT2A/Heborodin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hebon

adjective. bound; (also) bounded, surrounded

gerd(h)olm

noun. mine

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “mine” with variants gerdolm and gerdholm, a combination of G. groth “ore” and G. dolm “pit” (GL/38).

gersauth

noun. mine

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “mine” with variants gersauth and gersoth, a combination of G. groth “ore” and G. sauth “hole” (GL/38).

gersoth

noun. mine

habin

noun. shoe

Gnomish [GL/47; GL/66] Group: Eldamo. Published by